Nitrogen recycling and nutritional provisioning by Blattabacterium, the cockroach endosymbiont

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 46, 2009, Pages 19521-19526

  Sabree, Zakee L ^a,b   Kambhampati, Srinivas ^c   Moran, Nancy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flavobacteria; Insect endosymbiont; Nitrogen conservation; Uricolysis

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; NITROGEN; SIGMA FACTOR RPON; UREASE; URIC ACID; VITAMIN; AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BLATTABACTERIUM; COCKROACH; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FAT BODY; FEEDING; FLAVOBACTERIA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NITROGEN CYCLING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BACTEROIDETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PERIPLANETA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTEROIDETES; BLATTABACTERIUM; BLATTARIA; CANDIDATUS SULCIA MUELLERI; FLAVOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIALES; HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; PERIPLANETA; PHYLOGENY; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SYMBIOSIS; URIC ACID;

EID: 73349101558     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907504106     Document Type: Article

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